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By Stijn Mitzer and Joost Oliemans
Considering
the significant investments made by Azerbaijan in the acquisition of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), it is
perhaps surprising that Armenia entered the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War with
only a rudimentary unmanned aerial reconnaissance capability, and almost no
unmanned offensive capabilities to speak of. [1] While the Armenian Ministry of Defence boasted of having destroyed three Azerbaijani MBTs through the use of domestically-made loitering munitions during the July 2020 Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes, the
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War showed that despite this zealous claim, no such
capabilities truly existed in the inventory of the Armenian Armed Forces at that time. [2]